Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

Author Allan Gurganus writes of first meeting his teacher and friend John Cheever, who would be one hundred years old this year. (New York Review of Books)

David Carr profiles millionaire magazine publisher Felix Dennis, who is also a best-selling poet. Carr reports Dennis's "latest project is a room-size rock weighing thirty tons inscribed with one of his poems." (New York Times)

Speaking of best-selling poetry, Harriet lists last week's contemporary top sellers, led by Mary Oliver’s A Thousand Mornings.